Transformative Travel: The Latest Travel Trend

According to those in the know, ‘transformative travel’ is the travel trend to look out for in 2017.

For the past few years, travellers have increasingly started looking for meaningful experiences during their holidays.

Some travellers opted for a hands-on conservation experience, notching rhinos along wildlife vets, while others went even further by taking a sabbatical to help in an orphanage for a month on a volunteerism holiday.

2. Explore your spirituality at a beautiful Mosque in Abu Dhabi

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The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is one the world’s largest mosques and a place of true reflection and spirituality no matter what religion you believe in.

The beauty of this mosque also extends to its message which is to “promote mutual respect and understanding between different religions” and “enhance levels of communication, love, tolerance, and openness among people”.

5. Appreciate the origins of your food with a farm-to-table experience in Vietnam

Witness first-hand the hardship that goes into cultivating rice on the fields in Vietnam.

Travellers can learn how to plough, rake, carry water into the rice field, sow, pull up the rice seedlings, transplant rice, etc. Never again will you mindlessly scrape that leftover rice off your plate!

Travellers will also spend time in the markets tasting and learning the names of local produce as well as visit small producers to learn about the process of making local specialties.